In regards to Monero: I don't see any sign of real development on GitHub, exception made for a few sporadic backports from bytecoin. Also the client is a memory hog (because it still loads the whole block chain in RAM) and in my opinion if they don't change that (like RIGHT NOW ffs) then in a few months it will be unusable even on a decent machine.
Rpietila, what makes you think that Monero is getting stronger every day? What am I missing?